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tonight the dreaded "s" word snowquester. hundreds of schools closed and it's heading your way. if wall street's doing so well, why are you still stuck in neutral? and the death of venezuela's hugo chavez. what it means for america and the rest of the world. i'll ask barbara walters. also a side of the gun debate you may not have heard. parents heartbroken by newtown who say the nra can be part of the solution. a man disagrees but never leaves home without his gun. this guy has a secret to winning. tom coughlin, one of the toughest coaches in the nfl. >> preparation is the key to success. >> plus he's worn out his oscar welcome but she's hollywood's golden girl, kristin chenoweth. this is "piers morgan tonight."

good evening. breaking news tonight including a record smashing day for the dow and the death of venezuela's president hugo chavez, more on that in a moment but we begin with a store that's got people nervously eyeing the skies, but with good reason. a monster snowstorm has been dumping heavy snow in chicago all day. you could be right in its path. we're out in the midst of it tonight in chicago. how bad it is there? we're hearing that o'hare saw record snowfall accumulation today. >> good evening, piers, tonight, from the snowy city. it's actually the worst single snowfall since groundhog's day in 2011. here we are. we were expecting 6 to 10 inches. it appears that's exactly what we'll get, 6, 7, 8 inches in chicago and the burbs. this is the type of snow we're dealing with here, it's a meaty, a hearty snow, we in the midwest

call this potential heart attack snow. beware if you're out there shoveling. eight inches of the white stuff today. more to come. and that, of course, has created some havoc, especially for commuters locally and regionally. upwards of 2,000 flights were canceled throughout the midwest. 900 of those at o'hare airport, another 240 at midway. good news tonight, midway's main carrier, southwest airlines, are just starting to fly out again. one airline took off at 7:20, and that's the first in a long time. a lot of passengers bottlenecked, and this portends what is now heading to the east as this front moves towards you guys. back to you. >> thanks very much. cnn's alexandra steele is in the weather center tracking the path of the storm. how bad is this going to be, do you think? if you're sitting here in new

york, as we are, will it be a huge tub load coming our way? >> no, not for new york. it's a little different. washington will see more of the brunt of it than, say, boston and new york city. it is a heavy, wet snow. it will become a coastal snow. here's chicago where he just was. 6, 7 inches, maybe another inch or two. just snow showers. but what you'll see is the blowing and drifting of this snow around because you have 30-mile-per-hour wind gusts. an area of low pressure. it will move south and east, take this line with it. so indeed, 8, 9, 10 inches of snow through tomorrow. here's where the storm's so interesting. it gets to the mid-atlantic. now what's happening, this area of low pressure, will kind of phase and become an area of low pressure off the coast and become a coastal storm, meaning the farther from the coast you are, the more snow you're going to see. you talked about double digit snows. washington, d.c., inside the beltway, four to eight inches. eastward toward annapolis. maybe one to three inches top,

20 miles, you go west 20 miles, you get to dulles airport. people are certainly there, it's not far from town. 10 to 15 inches. then a little farther west with the appalachians kind of mountains there's that lifting so it squeezes out all moisture, 20 inches of snow there. >> strong stuff, thank you very much indeed. we'll turn to international breaking news. you're looking live at the streets of caracas where venezuelans are mourning the death of hugo chavez. reviled by some, loved by others. he pulled his country out of the world bank, nationalized venezuela's oil fields and in a memorable speech to world leader at the u.n. in 2006 he called president george w. bush the devil. he died today after a long battle with cancer. barbara walters interviewed chavez at the height of tensions between venezuela and the u.s. barbara joins me by phone. first of all, how are you? because there's a concern over your health.

you're back to work. >> i'm back to work and i'm just fine. chavez not only called him -- called president a devil, he called him a donkey. and he said he wasn't too smart either. no respect for our country or our democracy. >> you went to interview chavez in 2007, at the height of the tension between the u.s. and venezuela. many journalists said he could be incredibly charming in person. was that your experience? >> yes, he could be. i mean, he certainly wasn't the most physically attractive person, but he was very welcoming, although it was for us somewhat of a frightening trip. i had not been places where i had to have bodyguards. abc wanted us to have bodyguards because it was such a dangerous time in venezuela. the rich, the people who had some money, were living in house with gates and barricades, but

the other people, when he wanted us to go see the people, the people liked him because he had given them running water and toilets. and he could be very warm. he was very vulnerable, complained that he'd been married twice, piers, but had no time for relationship because he was married to his country. didn't get to see his children. he was this vulnerable man that we were supposed to be touched by. >> but he was an extraordinary character. he based himself on a combination of che guevara and his old friend fidel castro. he used to speak for hour had every day to the nation through radio and television. if you look at his record domestically, he reduced unemployment significantly, brought millions of venezuelans out of the poverty trap. that's why he had a kind of working class appeal. >> he was born very poor, unlike castro, who came from a family with some means.

and he was a socialist, and he understood the poor because he did feel that way himself. he talked to castro every day. he had a radio show in which he not only talked to castro, but he also -- this is something, pier, you may want to try it. he not only talked to his audience, but he sang to them. >> i don't think my audience is quite ready for me to sing. i want to play a clip from your interview, a particularly prophetic one given his death today. >> you have accused the u.s. government of trying to assassinate you. >> translator: it is the cia and some right-wing people here in venezuela who believe the only way they can control the revolution's impact on latin america is to assassinate me. and i have said if something happens to me, if i get killed, the president of the united states should be held responsible. >> obviously, the unite not responsible for his death. he died after a long battle with illness.

>> remember how much oil we got and get from venezuela. there are some people who were grateful to him because of this oil. when he wanted to, he could turn that off. he told me he would not, but if there was a threat, do something to me, good-bye oil. >> barbara, thank you for joining me. good to have you back on the airwaves, too. i want to turn to doug brinkley, presidential historian. you went to see hugo chavez in 2008 with christopher hitchens and sean penn. what was your take on him as a world leader? he was there 14 years on and off. how do you think history will judge him? >> well, he's a classic cadillo of latin america, a strongman, who was infat baited with che guevara and fidel castro. they would go visit castro all the time and write a regular letter that would be

messengered. some day there will be these castro/chavez letters. he had a love/hate with the unite. sean penn and danny glover were his friends. couldn't understand the u.s. government. thought the cia was behind all the mischief in the world and was very prone to conspiracy theories such as the apollo missions were a fraud and done in a hollywood backlot. baseball was a big deal with him. the cincinnati reds baseball team was his team and because his really good friend was dave enconcepcion. >> he made a statement but i preferred his tweets. he said hated by the entrenched classes hugo chavez will live forever in history. i mourn a great hero to majority of his people and those who struggle throughout the world for a place. and sean penn who traveled with you, said the venezuelan and it revolution will endure.

today the united states lost a friend it never knew it had. and poor people of the world lost a champion. i lost a friend i was blessed to have. a mixed bag today. people saying a lefty dictator who abused his people. a lot of people say no, he was very much a freedom fighter who fought for the underdogs in his country, took on the americans, took on the big boys of the world but protecting venezuela's national interests. >> yeah, but i think he was quite dangerous. if you look at some of the things he says about iran and his friendship that he wants to build with that country, he backed people like gadhafi. he had an inhinged view of history. his real nemesis was the country of colombia because there's a different economic model there and he was worried when i interviewed chavez about colombia, them doing nefarious

activities within his own country. he's just not a friend of the united states, but he believed in the gospel of christ. in that way he was different than castro. and did care about the poor people tremendously. we went on these back trails and went to rallies, and you could just feel the people coming up to him. so i do think he's going to live as kind of a folk figure like che guevara in the annals of american history. a record smashing day. the dow climbed to a high of 14253.77. the previous record from 2007. good news for investors but will it make a difference on main street and more on the death of hugo chavez potentially on the price of oil. joining me is cnn's chief business correspondent, ali velshi. any real reaction to the death of hugo chavez in the terms of oil prices? venezuela's the fourth biggest

supplier of oil to the united states. >> the eighth biggest importer of oil, the fourth biggest to the unite. no, oil markets trade all the time. there's nobody reaction so far. while hugo chavez nationalized a lot of the oil structure in venezuela, they kept producing oil. it was less efficient under nationalistic infrastructure. still the number one source of income for that country. what happened to the money? he directed it to a lot of social programs, but they'll still produce oil, they'll still sell a lot of oil. >> let's turn quickly to the dow. on the face of it, great news. booming economy, the dow soaring, but not as simple as that. the last time the dow soared like this it led to the big recession a few years ago. the previous time before that, it led to the great depression. it tends to be a signal of rather ominous news. >> let's disassociate the dow from the financial crisis and

the crash and the recession that happened. but the thing to remember about the dow jones industrial average, the dow is not the economy. the economy is not the dow. it's 30 companies which right now are doing really nicely, but think about all the other stuff that's going on in this economy. unemployment is 7.9%, consumer confidence is shaky, real estate market barely coming back. a disconnect between what's happening on wall street and what's happening out in the real economy where the rest of us live. >> ali, there is a disconnect, isn't there? this is not the real world, this is not where 7.9% of americans are unemployed or losing their homes. but it is a them and us? the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? >> i'll say a few things. one thing bigger than the dow is the s&p 500. it is up from 2009, which was the low. >> is a combined indicator of the strengthening of the economy? >> much of their revenue comes from the rest of the world. there are still fast growing places in the world that are

doing very well. they're slowing, india and china, but they're doing better than we are. there is growth. we've had 2 1/2 years of job growth but slow are than we need. real estate is turning out to be a fantastic investment because of low interest rates, but that takes time and capital. you have to have your investments increase in value, your home increase in value or your wages increase in value. 47% of americans have no direct investment in the stock market. >> if you have got a bit of cash -- and many americans don't, but if you do at the moment, is it a good or terrible time to invest in the stock market? >> oh, for crying out loud do not put your money in the stock market right now. you buy at the high and where does it go from here? far be it from me to tell anybody what to do with their money but have common sense and do not buy at the highs. that's the worst possible thing you could do. >> we don't know where the high is. that's the problem. if you compare earnings, which is what stock prices are based

on, they're cheaper today than they were five years ago in october of 2007. back then a stock was trading for 17 times its earnings. today it's 14. there are people who say we don't know it's a high. we broke a record. >> is it not encouraging generally for the perception of the american economy, people are buying the stock because they're buying into a promise that the future's going to be rosier. that has to be another indicator. >> this isn't the tech bubble where people were buying up stocks that had no revenue. the question is how long does that go on for? can governments around the world trip up economies to the extent that this doesn't live up to its expectation? but markets generally look ahead. other indicators often look behind. >> last word. >> let me interject a note of reality. we have going nobody washington, d.c., a political drama that will affect the american economy in ways we don't know for the next period of time.

anybody who looks at the stock market today as an indicator of the health of the american economy, is not seeing the whole picture. >> the lowest interest rates we've had since i had hair. natural gas, oil, there are some things happening in the united states that are economically interesting. >> does it help -- >> i completely agree. >> the government -- go ahead. >> i completely agree there are good things happening and the economy is growing. we know that. and jobs are being created. we know that. i'm just saying that thing that businesses hate, uncertainty, has never been more prevalent in the environment right now than it is at the moment in washington, d.c. >> okay. >> it's crazy. >> that's a good point. that's down to the politicians. thank you both very much indeed. a new idea on guns. a couple who saw the tragedy in newtown and said the nra can be part of the solution. they're here next. ople are choosing advil®. my name is taho and i'm a fish guy. it's a labor of love. it's a lot of labor and it's a lot of love.

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this isn't a black, white, democrat or republican issue, this is common sense, preservation. >> casting himself as a civil rights group. the battle of gun control pulling americans in different directions. joining me jon and rebecca bond founders of a movement to change the way americans think about guns. welcome to you both. read about you in "the new york times." a fascinating place to start this debate as far as you're concerned because you don't like using the phrase "gun control." maybe that's the most inflammatory part of this debate, the word "control." you prefer to use "safety." tell me about evolve and what the purpose is. >> the purpose of evolve is to become an aspirational brand, something that lives above some of the chatter or if you can think about being more transformational. a lot going on out there is very important but it's incremental, and in order to change culture, we're reframing the conversation.

you have to come at it from a different perspective. >> how are you going to change the way americans think about guns? >> well, i think if you go back to just being consistent with culture, culture is really what makes things change and stick in america. so if you take gun control, which you brought up, control versus freedom. control is counterculture. it's not american. freedom is american. that is a bad, bad, you know -- >> i know from twitter and stuff to the stuff we've been running, it's that word that really inflames the gun rights lobbyists. >> but then you talk to gun owners and non-gun owners, what they agree on is responsibility. >> and gun safety. most of the nra members actually do believe strongly in gun safety. >> absolutely. now you can create something that's culturally consistent with people instead of fighting. you can't change culture that way. >> what is interesting is some of the history in terms the of other big social issues that americans have faced.

drunk driving was a very popular thing to be doing 30, 40 years ago. then there was this horrific bus accident in the '80s, mothers against drunk driving got started because 27 people got killed. it became a huge turning point. watch a clip from one of those ads. >> are you okay to drive? >> yeah, i only had a couple drinks. i'm fine. ♪ >> keys can be a weapon. a few drinks can make you a killer. >> i mean, very powerful. and similar advertising has been done for the tobacco industry and has had an equal effect. smoking is far less popular now. it's not about getting rid of all guns. it's about make car driving, gun use safer. that's the realistic goal.

>> our fight isn't against guns. our fight is against irresponsible behavior related to guns. and so by coming at it from, first and foremost we start with saving a life. so if most people in this country can agree on one thing to begin with and that is to save a life, then we can start from a common ground. and that's where the conversation begins. a lot of our work that we've been doing is with nra people, with people down south, from all over the country. we're not talking to new yorkers and just in focus groups. i had a creative session where i put people from north carolina, nra members worked for former republican presidents and then are on the phone with our creatives. that's where the conversation began. by the end of the conversation they were coming up with some amazing ideas. but that's what you want to have is conversation. >> is it unhelpful that the leadership of the nra say such inflammatory stuff? it seems there's a disconnect between them and their own members.

because a lot of the members contact me and say i totally agree with you. if it means a few more regulations, we're not against it. but the membership is like you will not touch a single gun. >> we need the nra. we need them to step up. and responsibility should apply to organizations. if you look at the spirits industry, every big liquor company, bacardi, diageo, they spend their own money, research, to reduce underaged driving. that reduces the amount of alcohol sales. that's good business. it's good business to do this. >> is it time to have just as compelling and controversial advertising relating to gun violence? >> the problem with -- it depends on the kind of -- >> this got through to the public psyche with tobacco and alcohol.

>> we need people who own guns to accept our organization. and if we make them feel bad about themself or they see they're being attacked, then they push back and are intransient. so we need to be inclusive. >> i get that. i like what you're doing. i think it is the way to try and get some common ground because at the moment it's just extremities the on both sides. if you take either position you're immediately positioned as an extremist. >> all the noise comes from the edges. the people who need a voice are in the middle. that's who we're trying to appeal so. >> they also have large ad budgets. if you look at the gun companies -- >> the nra, they spend a fortune promoting guns. what i never see are the kind of really shocking advertising about the impact of gun violence, which you saw change the mood about tobacco abuse and about drunk driving. >> i also posed that question conversation on the phone with the nra members. i said as someone who has spent a good portion of my time in the private sector, we come up with responsibility campaigns as part of our general campaigns. i said, why can't they take some of those dollars.

p they said, we should. >> they do some, but i'd like to see the nra spend less money on lobbying and fighting and more on -- >> agreed. >> -- gun safety and protecting their own members. >> rebecca, jon, we'll leave it there. keep doing what you're doing. >> thank you. a proud gun owner with dozens of weapons. why he turned his back on the nra. after he shot somebody who threatened him with a gun. yo, give it up, dude!

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>> as a gun owner i demand action. >> demand action. >> enough. >> enough. >> enough. >> mayors against illegal guns has anti-gun spots running as well. i want to bring on now a man who owns 38 guns and used one to shop a robber. he subsequently quit the nra. tell me exactly what happened in 2009 with this robber. >> well, it was a saturday before easter. april 11. i was down at a place called the acoa club which is an alcoholics anonymous club here in south carolina. i was sitting in this chair and a fellow came in with a gun. he said to several people in the building that they should give it up, empty their pockets. one fella did. they turned his pockets inside out. everything went all over the place just like the three stooges. this kid swept up a cell phone

or something off the floor, came in front of me and stood and said the same thing. so i emptied my pocket. he didn't want what i had. it was this pistol right here in this wallet holster. my first shot was right through his sternum, and it took three more shots to bring him down. if you want know exactly what the details of it, i can give you those. >> no, i think suffice to say that the man later died. and you were not prosecuted. it was deemed justifiable homicide. i don't think you were even arrested or anything at the scene. the police concede it was a fait accompli, justifiable homicide and many wouldn't argue given the way this man had come in and brandishing his gun and threatening all. what i'm interested in now is why you have quit the nra? >> because all you ever hear about is fund-raising, for what purpose, i'm not really sure.

they had the national reciprocity bill going through congress, i couldn't get a straight answer out of anybody why they wouldn't bring it to a senate vote in 2010 or in 2011 so you at least know who you're against. >> i mean, do you think the nra has any sense of responsibility in terms of the guests i just had, they never advertise in terms of gun safety, responsibility at all. all the advertising is geared towards selling more firearms. do you think it would change their pr, if nothing else if they really started to take seriously advertising the and promoting safe gun use. >> they do do that in their marksmanship program, which you've got to enroll in one of their marksmanship courses to get that. >> right. >> you're going to get a lot more gun safety in a concealed weapons permit class here in south carolina. >> do you think there's a disconnect between the leadership of the nra and most

of the members? do you feel many feel unsettled after sandy hook the leadership went so aggressively on the front foot and the result was simply the selling of a lot more weapons? >> yes. i think there's a disconnect. i don't think they're communicating. they communicate through three magazines and some select mailings. all of which are just basically soliciting funds for whatever, you know, they happen to be pushing at the moment. i'm not really sure what they're pushing. >> seen to the cynical eye is helping the manufacturers who fund most of the nra to sell more guns and ammunition. you used a semiautomatic handgun, i believe, in the incident you talked about earlier. what do you feel about an assault weapons ban? because many in the nra think that's an unthinkable thing to consider.

>> i'm not for an assault weapons ban simply because i don't think we could fund it. this is america. we have the 14th amendment. you can't take private property without compensation. do you want to buy all those guns? where are you going to get the money to buy them? >> well, i guess the assault weapons ban would apply to future sales. you would simply remove some of the more military style assault rifles and so on from civilian public consumption. >> well, the problem there is what is military style? the definition's can bog you down forever. and if you name 260 different weapons by maker and model number, there will be 60 other weapons that would perform the same way within six months. >> if i could ask you to say one thing that you felt would be most constructive to making america a less violent country

in terms the of gun violence, what would you say? >> one would be to enforce the existing laws. you know, i go to gun shows, and i see lots of undocumented sales that i don't know that those are necessarily the problem. the problem is the people who are making the sales. you have an awful lot of exhibitors at gun shows that i think are violating the federal laws and they're selling more than 15 guns a year, not from their private collections, which means they have to get a federal firearms license. you've got an awful lot of unlicensed dealers out there. >> it does seem to be bordering on the wild west at some of these gun shows. a fascinating conversation. i appreciate you joining me. you come from an almost unique perspective. and i would say that for all those who think i just want to get rid of all guns in america, the story you tell of you you defended yourself and the people

in the room is a very good example of where a use of a gun in america is essential to your safety. i have no issue to that. that's exactly what the second amendment is about, but i appreciate you joining me. >> because i was armed. >> right. i understand that. i appreciate you joining me. thank you. >> thank you. coming up next the nfl coach with rules for winning on and off the football field. i talk to tom coughlin. both tylenol and bayer advanced aspirin are proven to be effective pain relievers. tylenol works by blocking pain signals to your brain. bayer advanced aspirin blocks pain at the site. try the power of bayer advanced aspirin. try the power

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one of the most successful head coaches in the nfl. the new york giants to two super bowl wins. ask anyone, they'll say that tom coughlin isn't easy.

there are pretty strict rules that everyone has to obey. if you don't follow those rules, you're going to be out on your ear. his winning football isn't just football. it applies everywhere. joining me now is tom coughlin, author of "earn the right to win." this guy, he doesn't take prisoners. why you're so successful, but it is intimidating. you rule with a rod of iron. >> well, i have in the past done that because of the circumstances that i've been in. for example, you go to jacksonville, it's a brand new expansion team. you know, you have players coming from all directions. it's a motley crew to say the least. you are not going to start out easy. you're going to start out hard. what we were able to accomplish is that we had a bunch of people collectively united in one thing, they didn't like me. that's how that started. the toughness, the physical play, the way in which we started the program resulted in two afc championship games in the first five years. so it was successful from that

standpoint. >> i have a little unofficial motto that's my brother's military motto, the seven ps, prior planning and preparation prevent piss poor performance. your keys to winning or preparation, communication, motivation. is preparation in the end the single-most important thing? >> i think preparation is the key to success. and you lay it all out, as you well know, as we describe in the book. what happened for us was we win the super bowl xlvi. and i felt like, you know what, the way that our players played down through the stretch there was remarkable. and we did earn the right to win. and why not writa book about that so that perhaps we can lend some of these ideas to other people, no matter whether you're a housewife, working in management, coaching a youngster or youth group team, whatever it might be, these principles will apply. >> when you see what's happening in washington and the sort of collapse of any kind of

leadership or bipartisan cooperation, whatever it may be, taking the keys to winning that you have, what would you get them to do, these politicians, to try to work better for the cause of america? >> well, we all want that. and it's frustrating to see that why don't we come together to solve our nation's problems, put the politics aside? i always talk about team, which means unity. obviously, that's not the case in washington. we all wish it would be. >> there's something known as coughlin time. apparently if you're five minutes early for a meeting, you're late. how does that work? >> the way that works is when i first went to new york, what i wanted was our players to be focused, enthusiastic about coming to work, i wanted them to show commitment, to be eager to get started and learn. we changed all the clocks to be five minutes ahead. so everything was on coughlin time. and, of course, one of my pupils, michael strahan, made quite a deal out of that.

had some fun with it at first. hey, wait a minute, i'm three minutes early, but two minutes late. one of those kind of deals. >> in the foreword to the book, he says, i hated him. hate is a strong word, but that's the way i felt. he ends by saying i now tell people proudly that i love the man. i love him. and if i could, i would play for him any day and we would win. >> hate is a strong word, but it has to move in that direction. as i tell the players, we're not in a popularity contest here, it is not really a democracy. we're trying to establish the fundamentals that will allow us to win. we both want the same thing. >> discipline is a big issue in nfl as in all american sports. i want to play you a clip from an interview with bob costas about the gun culture in the nfl. >> if this has sparked a conversation and in some small way influenced people's behavior, so much the better. front page of the paper, not the sports second, front page of the weekend edition of "usa today" is about guns in the national

football league. there is a gun culture in the national football league. >> this fellow, the jovan belcher, you had a player plaxico burress who shot and went to jail. how do you deal with these young guys that are physically massive, superfit, buckets of cash, women throwing themselves the at them. how do you get them to understand what discipline is like off the field in their real lives? >> well, that's not an easy thing, but when you're talking about this gun culture, the nfl has strong rules against that. i mean, there's not supposed to be any kind of firearm even in the trunk of their car parked in the parking lot at the facility. now does that mean they don't have them at home? no. but we have rules and regulations and we do a great job in player development in trying to make sure if they have a firearm, is it legal, is it registered and the knowledge they aren't to bring that to the facility. discipline, to be honest with

you, piers, they all want discipline, they want professionalism. they're the first ones to remind if you something isn't first class. you have to start there. we are a reflection of society. unfortunately society has these problems and these issues. we have them in the national football league. we try to do something about them. we try to educate them as to what they should and should not be doing. in some cases we're successful, in others not really. >> tom coughlin, "earn the right to win." good to see you. >> thank you, piers. small on size, big on talent. i talk to kristin chenoweth. with the spark cash card

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♪ the parade passes by ♪ i'm going to get some life back into my life ♪ ♪ i'm ready to move out in front ♪ >> kristin chenoweth performing at lincoln center in "the dames of broadway." a pbs special. airing on march 24th. you're doing all of that, are you? >> i try. >> how are you? >> i'm okay but this time i was hoping -- >> you could reach my floor?

>> what do you want? a lap dance? i'll do it. >> i love that. how are you? >> i'm good. >> the oscars must have been unbelievably nerve racking and then such a buzz afterwards. >> it was a total buzz. we did a song that we kind of had to learn at the very last minute. so that was really fun. >> a billion odd people are watching this. >> i had diarrhea and i'd rather not. i don't. thanks for bringing this up. >> he's been getting flack for this show him your boobs song. do you have any problems with what he did? >> well, first of all, i have boobs and i don't really know the big deal. i thought he killed it. i thought it was great. the ratings went up. i hope he comes back and does it again some day. >> i think he will. the other success is the bible, which is incredibly successful

show that has come out, huge ratings on cable. you're a famous christian, or a christian famous person, whatever you want to call yourself. >> uh-huh. >> what do you think about the success about this? what does it say about america today? >> you know, i'd be a liar if i didn't say that it was interesting. look what we deal with in new york on a daily basis. it makes me happy that people are interested to watch history and i love that they are putting it -- people aren't watching dance mobs, they are watching the bible although i am watching dance moves. >> let me play a clip here so people know what i am talking about. >> god has sent me. set you free. >> the lord's brought us out from egypt. >> doesn't it look good? >> well, it's a classic mark

burnett production. completely over the top, fabulous costumes, beautiful people. i had a conversation with him on text yesterday and i asked him about the success and he said, more people are discussing today abraham and mow says, it's a foundation of our faith, western civilization, and literature and art. that's a smart way of putting it. >> very smart and i have to back him. if people are talking about god as a christian, i'm happy. >> it's good news, right? >> it's good news. >> let's turn to great britain because you're about to go over there and take your pint-sized talents to my country. >> i'm going to your country and i'm going to sing. on a scale of 1 to 10, how is my accent? >> 8, pretty awful. >> tell me, from london to manchester, how many hours is that? >> they don't use language like that on stage. >> i am. i'm going to be me.

>> we're pretty prudish. >> i can't wait. i have a lot of fans over there. >> you've been through this horrific thing. you did "the good wife," one of my favorite shows. >> isn't it great? >> i love all of the cast and you have this terrible stent. tell me what happened and the repercussions for you. >> i'm just making sure everything is locked down in here. basically, a thing this size, it's a screen attached to metal, a windy day, it fell on the front of my face and broke some things on my face. >> i don't think people knew the scale of the damage. i didn't. you just told me. tell me exactly what happened to you. >> it hit me in the face and cracked my jaw, they believe, and then slammed me in the back and i had a five-inch skull fracture and rib and neck problems and i'm doing so much better. >> did you think that this might kill you? what did you feel? >> i was out for about six to seven minutes and i woke up and they said what happened and they

said you fell. i thought i was actually slammed down to the ground. you know, our lovely josh charles, he was there on the scene with me and saw it happened and thought maybe i had, speaking of the bible, thought i had gone up to heaven. he was at the hospital waiting for three hours waiting to see if i was okay. >> he's got a big heart despite being a spurs fan. >> forgive him. >> i could never forgive that. >> oh, that's right. i forgot. >> enemy of my time. >> okay. >> you're okay now? you've still got repercussions? >> my brain issues are much better. but it does take some time. piers -- don't you want a lap dance? yeah, i'm doing much better. i'm not myself yet in the neck and jaw but getting there. >> you're looking pretty perfect. >> thank you. >> pretty back to normal. >> thank you. >> are they going to show the scenes of what happened? >> they showed it.

i was supposed to be in three or four episodes but i was only in one and hopefully i'll get to -- right now i'm trying to make up for lost time. i'm making up the european tour. of course things pop up, like the oscars. >> and you've got a movie. called "family weekend." >> yes, it's good. >> tell me about it. >> it's about a family and it takes place over the weekend. i made him laugh. woo-hoo. thank you. i play a mom who's not the best mom and dad and we get kidnapped by our kids to become better parents. >> i bet you're adorable. >> thank you. >> you're always adorable. >> thank you. >> let's get through this. you go to kristin.com the movie "family weekend" hits theaters march 29th. "the good wife" will be coming out soon. you'll be on oscars, britain, you'll be everywhere. >> i'm sick of me. >> thanks. i'll never wash this hand again.

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